Sportsman v. Halstead

This is a suit in equity to enforce specific performance of an alleged oral contract between the respondents, who are. husband and wife, and P. B. Smith, deceased, whereby the latter agreed that respondents should have and receive whatever property he might leave at his death, if they would live with him, take care of him, and administer to his physical wants and needs in sickness and in health so long as he might live. The contract is thus pleaded in respondents’ petition. Smith was an aged bachelor and the defendants-below, appellants here, are his administrator and heirs.

Respondents ’…